Women’s Reform and Suffrage SWBAT: Identify women’s role in both creating workplace reforms and the beginnings of the suffrage movement. Homework: None Do Now: What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.
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Women’s Reform and SuffrageSWBAT: Identify women’s role in both creating workplace reforms and the beginnings of the suffrage movement. Homework: NoneDo Now: What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.
Do Now• What inequalities (if any) still exist between men and women. Consider:
economically, professionally, socially, politically, etc.
Reform
Women and working• In the mid-1800s, poorer women
start working out of necessity.• Jobs women took:
Farmers Textile Industry (making clothing) Domestic Work (house cleaning,
laundry)• By 1900s, 1 out of 5 women had a
job.
Working and Reform• Began to notice some of the problems in
the work force.• Problems included:
Unequal pay Dangerous conditions (think Triangle
Factory Fire) Long hours Child Labor
• Women led the way in work place reforms.
The Fight for Suffrage
The movement begins…• As early as the 1840s, women began
fighting for the right to vote.• Why?
The passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments
Why would this add fuel to the fire?
• Women meet in Seneca Fall, NY to discuss strategy:1. Try to convince state legislatures women should vote.2. Used court cases to test the 14th and 15th Amendments.3. Pushed for a constitutional amendment.
“Bad Romance” video• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM• What argument do the women in the song give for suffrage?• What happened to the women who picketed?• What did the note say that the male politician had in his pocket?